Ryan talks to Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen of Snapzoom, a startup hoping to build an adjustable smartphone mount that allows you to take advantage of traditional optics like binoculars with your phone’s camera. Snapzoom works with most phones (from the iPhone to the giant Galaxy Note) and most scopes like binoculars and telescopes. After making it to the final rounds of Engadget’s “Insert Coin” … Continue reading Snapzoom
Last night brought the first meeting of the Hacks/Hackers group in Hawaii. The focus? Digital journalism, social media, open data, APIs and open government. Among the presenters: Misa Maruyama of the Hawaii Computer Human Interaction Lab invited attendees to participate in a study on social media’s role in political discourse. To participate, fill out this volunteer form. Burt Lum of Bytemarks Cafe introduced the latest … Continue reading Hacks/Hackers
No more getting caught in the rain waiting for the bus! No more scratching your head and wondering if you had missed the bus! No more guessing when the next bus will arrive. The DaBus app takes the guess work out of catching the bus on the island of Oahu. It uses the near real-time arrival information, courtesy of the Oahu Transit Services, to provide … Continue reading DaBus – The Oahu Bus App
As part of the City and County of Honolulu’s disaster preparedness effort, they’ve created this mobile application. Discover and share tsunami evacuation zone information for the island of Oahu. In the event of an emergency, time is of the essence. The Honolulu Tsunami Evacuation Zones app allows you to quickly and easily discover if you are in a tsunami evacuation zone. Search for your loved … Continue reading Honolulu Tsunami Evacuation Zones
Moodscope is very easy to use and is based on a rating scale developed by the American Psychological Association. The program shows you a set of 20 cards ranging from Anger, Irritation, Nervous, Attentive, Active, etc. For each card you self rate yourself on a scale from 1-4. Moodscope then tabulates your score and gives you a rating from 1-100. You can then plot this … Continue reading Moodscope
Coworking space is not a new concept. They’ve been around for years. You can find traditional business workspaces in places like Seven Waterfront Plaza that charge as much as $45 per hour for a conference room. But that is not conducive to startups and entrepreneurs looking to grab a seat, charge up the laptop, get internet access and collaborate with a buddy. Coworking spaces popping … Continue reading Coworking in Hawaii
The announcements made by Apple at WWDC 2011 were game changing. I especially like the way the human to computer interface is evolving. On this Techspotting video, Ryan and I do a quick overview of what stood out in our minds with Apple’s announcements. We can look forward to a new Macintosh operating system called Lion, a new iOS version 5 for the iPhone and … Continue reading Apple WWDC 2011
While at Quantified Self 2011 in Mountain View, CA this past May, I got a chance to meet a bunch of great folks, one of them being Jason Jacobs, CEO and Founder of Runkeeper. Anyone with a smartphone like the iPhone or Android device can download this app. And if you are like me, your iPhone is your constant companion. While on runs, Runkeeper will … Continue reading Runkeeper
This past weekend I got a chance to attend the first Quantified Self conference held in Mountain View, CA at the Computer History Museum. By way of background, the Quantified Self is a movement to better understand your health through knowing your numbers. Technology that helps us monitor vital statistics like activity, blood pressure, heart rate, weight, sleep periods, etc. are not limited to the … Continue reading Quantified Self 2011
On the next edition of Techspotting, Ryan and I talk about a novel device that attaches to your iPhone or iPad and enables you to take credit card payments. It is quite as simple as that. The device is called Square and you can get one at Squareup.com or you can pick one up at the Apple Store. The unit is free as well as the … Continue reading Square
